Need some help with FC5T3 install issue

[PaulJavaJedi]

Hi,

Done a search and foudn no answers, hoping someone can help me with my install problem.

FC5T3 will boot, offered to check install media (did this once and all media checks ok), then when the install starts Anaconda exits abnormally.

I think its a problem accessing my cdrom drive for the install media (even though it boots etc), looking at the other consoles I see:

10:00:37 INFO : mntloop loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /mnt/source/Fedora/base/stage2.img fd is 32

but on console 4 (that was on 3) I see the message:

<7>ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
<4>Unable to identify CD-ROM format
<4>VFS: Can't find an ext filesystem on dev loop0

So in essence, it seems that it is trying mount the CDROM and decides it cannot find the filesystem on the disk, which is weird.

I think the problem may be I am using an external CD/DVD drive in a USB enclosure perhaps? What boggles me is that FC4 installs fine with the same machine and setup?!

Anyone suggest a way round this, perhaps I can manually mount the partition during install in the righ place somehow?

Paul

[PaulJavaJedi]

Made USB key with boot.img from images/ directory on disk one, copied all disc Fedora folders to a networked PC and then did an NFS install booting from the USB and installing from network share.

Seems to hate the USB-CDROM that I have, even though FC4 would play nice....

Paul.

[r1348]

From the rawhide report 20060228:
anaconda-10.92.12-1
-------------------
* Mon Feb 27 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com> - 10.92.12-1
- Dependency whiteout to fix ordering (clumens)
- Fix swap on RAID in kickstart (#176537)
- Add keymap overrides
- Fix segfault with USB CD/DVD drives (#182589)

So it seems that your issue has already been solved, FC5t3 is still affected since it uses a previous version of anaconda, but it's very likely that FC5 final won't ;)

[PaulJavaJedi]

From the rawhide report 20060228:
anaconda-10.92.12-1
-------------------

- Fix segfault with USB CD/DVD drives (#182589)

So it seems that your issue has already been solved, FC5t3 is still affected since it uses a previous version of anaconda, but it's very likely that FC5 final won't ;)


TOP :D

All I need to do now is work out where the lib libXxf86vm.so that used to be in xorg-x11-server-devel under xorg 6.x with fc4 has gone now fc5 is xorg 7.0, and I might be in danger of getting mythtv to compile!

Paul.

[Firewing1]

I'm sure you'll be fine -- worst comes to worst send in a bug report and they might release a nwe version with xorg 7 support :)
Firewing1